1. Both glumes are present and well developed.

2. Maize Cupules may be indurate, but the outer glumes are softer than the highly indurated glumes of the teosinte ear

3. The spikelet is a pseudospikelet consisting of two glumes and 1–2 florets.

4. Awn definition, a bristlelike appendage of a plant, especially on the glumes of grasses

5. Awn definition is - one of the slender bristles that terminate the glumes of the spikelet in some cereal and other grasses.

6. Without terminal Anthoid, and bearing (l-)2-several lateral glumes, 1 -all holding a lateral Anthoid in their axil (fig

7. A glume is a scale axillating a lateral Anthoid ; empty glumes also do occur and may be recognized by their position or surrounding scales, forming an oligAnthoid spikelet

8. Earlyleaf Brome is distinguished by the leafy stems, Auricled sheaths, dense line of hairs on at least some ligules, nodes all hidden within the sheaths, a 1-veined lower glume, 3 to 5-veined upper glume, glumes and lemmas both often hairy, lemmas with longer …

9. Leaf: ligule 1.5--3 mm, truncate to obtuse, decurrent to sheath, toothed; blade 1--5 mm, 1--2 mm wide, flat or folded.Inflorescence: 4--14 cm, 0.5--1.5 cm wide, narrow; branches Appressed, loosely flowered.Spikelet: in lower branch axils cleistogamous, enclosed by tightly rolled sheath; glumes 1--2 mm, obtuse to acute; lemma 4.5--6 mm, hairs at base short

10. Spikes are erect, oblong, middense and midlong and white at maturity; awns are midlong and Appressed; glumes are midwide, midlong and glabrous; glume shoulders are midwide and oblique; glume beaks are midlong and acuminate; kernels are soft, creamy white, midsize (34.2 mg), midlong, oval to ovate; germ is midsize, oval to ovate; crease is midwide to wide, middeep; cheeks are rounded to angular